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For once she lost her hard little worldly screwed-up expression and was wreathed in smiles of genuine eagerness: "Oh Boy!" she exclaimed delightedly, dancing around the room, "Now we can have a victrola, an' a player-piano, and Dan'll get a Ford, one o' those limousine-kind! Won't I be some swell? What'll the girls at the store think now?" "H'm!
"If you'd only got decent clothes," said Joe, as they passed Gravesend, "you could go off and send a telegram, and not come back; but you couldn't go five yards in them things without having a crowd after you." "I shall have to be taken I s'pose," said Smith moodily. "An' poor old Dan'll get six months hard for helping you off," said Joe sympathetically, as a bright idea occurred to him.
"Bessie's got a horse. He's out in the yard now," said the grandmother with pride. "A horse! All your own? Gee whiz! Won't the girls stare when I tell them? Say, we can borrow a rig at the livery some night, and take a ride. Dan'll go with us, and get the rig for us. Won't that be great?" Elizabeth smiled. She felt the glow of at last contributing something to the family pleasure.
"Only a little while, Joan." "But Daddy Dan'll be lonesome up there." "He has Satan and Bart to keep him company." "Don't you think he wants Joan, munner?" "Not as much as the poor little puppy wants you, Joan." She added, with just the slightest tremor: "You decide for yourself, Joan. Go if you think it is best."
"Was that your partner who followed my father?" "Sure. It was Dan, an' he means business." "What business?" "Oh, Dan'll tell ye when he comes back." "Do you mean that he intends to shoot my father and Mr. Reynolds?" "Mr. Reynolds!" Curly mockingly repeated. "Yes, Mr. Reynolds, too."
It was offered to him by Rogers as soon as Dan brought Lee in. What d'you think he done? Pocketed the cheque? No, he grabbed it, an' tore it up small: 'I ain't after no blood money, he says." "No," said Silent. "He ain't after no money he's after me!" "Tomorrow they bury Calder. The next day Whistlin' Dan'll be on our trail again an' he'll be playin' the same lone hand.
The little girl ran a step towards the door, and then stopped and shrank back against the bed. "If you're afraid your Dad'll find you here," said Vic, "just you run along." She was nervously twisting her hands in her dress. "Daddy Dan'll know," she whispered without turning. "And and he won't let me be afraid -even of him!"
"I'd hoped to be able to drive this fine fellow back, but Dan'll have to groan an' balk all the way to the farm." Ethel smiled. "Better buy at my price, Mr. Merrick," she suggested. "Tell you what I'll do," he said, pausing. "I'll split the difference. Take two hundred and well call it a bargain." "But I cannot do that, sir."
"Not unless his hoss is a pile of bones; if it has any heart in it, Dan'll run away from anything on four legs. No call for worryin', Kate. He's simply led 'em a long ways off and waited for evenin' before he doubled back. He'll come back right enough. If they didn't catch him that first run they'll never get the wind of him."
So I stands sayin' these things to myself, and I says: 'If I keep that wall from fallin' Dan'll know about it, and they won't be no more of that yaller light in his eyes when he looks at me. That's what I says to myself, poor fool! "And I went into the fire and I fought to keep that wall from fallin'. You know what happened.
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